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A team led by UArizona astronomers will use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine three of the most distant active supermassive black holes known, as well as their host galaxies.

Scientists find earliest supermassive black hole and quasar in the universe The most distant quasar known has been discovered. The quasar, observed just 670 million years after the Big Bang, is 1000 times more luminous than the Milky Way. It is powered by the earliest known supermassive black hole, which weighs in at more than 1.6 billion times the mass of the Sun. Seen more than 13 billion years ago, this fully formed distant quasar is also the earliest yet discovered, providing astronomers with insight into the formation of massive galaxies in the early Universe. The result was released to...

Scientists have found the most distant – and therefore oldest – quasar ever to be discovered. The object could help shed light on the beginnings of black holes and how they are able to form. Quasars are the most energetic and among the very brightest objects in the universe. They are thought to form when supermassive black holes eat up the matter that surrounds them, such as gas or stars, leaving a huge and swirling disc of debris surrounding...